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On Duty ('The Author') Spring 2015
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Yes, After John Terry, let’s talk about Race ('The Observer') July, 2012
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Young, Black and Confused (Cover Story, 'Race in Britain' supplement, 'The Observer') 2nd September 2001
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Obama ('African Writing Online') 2008
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The African Psyche ('New Statesman') 2005
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Tribal Britons should live and let live ('The Guardian') 2005
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Diaspora chic is big in the Academy but not on the streets ('Index on Censorship') 2003
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On the new black middle-class ('The Observer') Sunday June 2, 2002
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On Babyfathers (The Guardian) 2002
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Malcolm X ('The Independent') Friday 8 March 2002
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I lost my heart in…Durban (Travel, 'The Guardian') Saturday June 30, 2001
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Slavery Q and A (On Britain's abolition of the slave trade) 2007
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Searching for a black face in Eden, England (The Guardian') 2000
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Public Schools ('The Sunday Times') 2003
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Greatest Modern Reads: ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ ('The Times') 2009
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The Dedication Business ('Daily Telegraph') 2000
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White Lines: Black folk in Victorian Art ('The Guardian') 2005
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Pretty Is The New Black Dinner Speech on Black-British aesthetics, Howard University 2006
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New Writing 12- Introduction (Co-written with Jane Rogers and Blake Morrison, published by Picador) 2003
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London Calling, by Sukhdev Sandhu ('The Daily Telegraph') 2003
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Books of the Year ('The Observer') 2004
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African Literature (The Times) 2005
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The Atlantic Sound, by Caryl Phillips (The TImes') 2000
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The Hip-Hop Years, Channel 4 ('Black Film Bulletin') 2000
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An Interview with ‘Cheek by Jowl’ theatre company (‘Debate’ , The Oxford Union magazine) 1988
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An Interview with Tom Wolfe (‘Cherwell’, The Oxford University newspaper) 1987
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Eye on the Stars: Twitter and the Sporting Hero ('Index on Censorship') May, 2013
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UK Cricket’s Decline ('Index on Censorship') 2000
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Urban Cricket: A sort-of memoir (on cricket as Nature, the game then and now, and the problem with ‘Role Models… (from '25 X 4: Channel 4 at 25' Editors: Rosie Boycott and Meredith Etherington-Smith) 2008